Global Art • 1958 • IV
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Kathryn Smith, Roger van Wyk
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4 August 2022
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Global Art • 1958 • IV
Allan Kaprow stages the first public 'happening' at the Reuben Gallery in New York. Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg are among the performers. Kaprow defines a happening as a choreographed event that facilitates spontaneous interactions between objects, which include performers and visitors.
An entry from the timeline included in the exhibition Dada South? Experimentation, Radicalism and Resistance (2009–2010) at the Iziko National Gallery, which proposed connections between art production in South Africa and abroad against the social and political contexts that framed them. A revised version of this timeline was later featured in the retroactive Flight Paths (2011) exhibition guide commissioned by Clare Butcher.